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Much better. Still look useless like but as a team we actually looked like we had a plan. Officials were dreadful yet again Really hope we stick with 3 in the middle until we sign some African unit.

Alexander Obafemi Arnold

Hard to complain given Lascelles fucking calamity early on, but that's about as clear a penalty as you'll ever see He goes through his fucking ankle to the the ball, are the VAR officials competition winners or summit?

Maybe Maxi is just clinically depressed, watching his team mates bumble about every time he creates a spark.

I mean we've benefited there, but what actually is the point of VAR? Lascelles just fucking throws him over the thick cunt

Blatant pen that like

I was expecting a lot worse like. Still depressing that we have absolutely nothing about us.

Fair enough, I'm watching on like 3 pixels so possibly seeing things like

There were two onfield officials and a VAR team watching the incident.

Surely you have to stop the game when theres a fucking clear head injury like. Getting absolutely ridiculous this officiating like. Cannot blame Liverpool like

I honestly think we'll win.

Probably will yeah. Really hoping for 3 in the middle though.

Something like that I would expect? Dubs Manq Schar Lascelles Lewis Hayden Shelvey Joelinton Murphy Asm Fraser

Maxi up top for the counter with Joelinton behind possibly

It just seems like, when seeing it happen in real time, that he made some pretty clear mistakes and because 9f them we're in a really bad position. Like I've barely watched us in 2 years yet I understand the general concensus that Clark, Darlow and Lascelles are shite. That Richie isn't a left back (I mean I could have guessed that one myself like). Whether he's misjudged the squad, or allowed others to give him bad advice, he still made those calls despite the average Newcastle fan knowing they were wrong. I'm not saying this to have a go at Howe, the opposite in fact I really like him. I just don't want him to get fired before he has a chance to actually get us playing how he wants.

Well yeah but he's making a shit squad even worse with some weird line-up choices. I mean you see people on here before every game pointing to where he's going wrong and pretty much every time they've been right. It's not rocket science. "Why has he picked Darlow and why are we playing with no fullbacks?" - Our wingers in defence and Darlow are at fault for us conceding 3 goals. "Why has he picked Clark ahead of Fernandez?" - Clark gets sent off after 10 minutes, Fernandez comes on and looks great. "Why are we playing Willock in a midfield 2?" - Every week and Willock still hasn't put a half decent performance in. To a point you can blame the squad, or you can blame the other backroom staff for the transition period etc, it's just that seeing it real time he seems very slow to react to issues if he even sees them at all. This isn't some OTT reaction and I don't want Howe out. I think he's fucked up and we now need to save ourselves in January because of it but I'm more than willing to let him do that.

I would drop him for Liverpool purely because if don't want to get botted silly we're probably going to need every man doing defensive work for 90 minutes. I think he's actually been alright recently though. We're just not ready yet as a unit.

Aye, unless Howe magically gets us playing the forward thinking, pressing football he wants from us, against Liverpool of all teams, then ASM likely becomes anonymous. Could play him up top by himself for the pace on the counter but that would mean no Wilson so probably not. Almiron is far better suited in a game where we're going to have like 20% possession. I would usually be against dropping our key players and essentially conceding all hope of actually playing football but we saw against Arsenal how pointless it is for us to set ourselves up to take it to them.

Dubs Manq Schar Lascelles Fede Lewis Hayden Shelvey Joelinton Almiron Wilson Absolutely awful lineup but I'm not sure what we do tbh Park the bus and hope for a Shelvey/Joelinto ball over the top to Wilson/Almiron.

This is an amazing tweet like.

Thats the thing for me though, I can accept that call from a referee, I think it's an awful decision and would call him a cunt but it's sort of expected. For VAR to miss it though is completely unacceptable. Had we not gone on to concede 3 more goals I would be absolutely raging. They literally just gave them a goal for nowt

It's really effective at taking the pressure off linesmen and makes offside goals mostly a thing of the past. Beyond that though the whole process is just drama in and of itself.

Use it for offsides and off ball incidents that the ref misses etc. Basically things where there cannot be much debate about the outcome. Scrap it for penalties and just go by whatever the ref's initial decision, at least mental decisions can be put down to individual error and we can move on.

I'm not even joking like every official in that VAR room should never be involved in another Premiership game. I can only assume one of them had a bet on Tielemans FGS. It's honestly the most plausable theory.

Fucking hell just realised Jack Colback would walk into our side.